From: 11/02/2016
To: 11/02/2016
Type of Water: Freshwater
Species: Brown trout
EARLY SEASON TRIP WITH MATT AND PUDGE
Matt and Pudge spent 3 days fly fishing with me few seasons back around the Twizel-Omarama region. The boys re-booked last year but had to pull the pin as Matt was getting married and the budget blew out cutting into his New Zealand fly fishing fund ! This trip they decided to come out early season and fish in the Southland region this time round. We based our selves at the Mossburn Hotel , a classic "Kiwi-Style" pub that serves great food and good beer , something that should never be overlooked when planning a fishing trip ! The small township of Mossburn is situated on the banks of the famous XXXX river , a river well known throughout the world for its wily Brown Trout and back country scenery.
We progressed up stream slowly , carefully fishing al View more...EARLY SEASON TRIP WITH MATT AND PUDGE
Matt and Pudge spent 3 days fly fishing with me few seasons back around the Twizel-Omarama region. The boys re-booked last year but had to pull the pin as Matt was getting married and the budget blew out cutting into his New Zealand fly fishing fund ! This trip they decided to come out early season and fish in the Southland region this time round. We based our selves at the Mossburn Hotel , a classic "Kiwi-Style" pub that serves great food and good beer , something that should never be overlooked when planning a fishing trip ! The small township of Mossburn is situated on the banks of the famous XXXX river , a river well known throughout the world for its wily Brown Trout and back country scenery.
We progressed up stream slowly , carefully fishing all the likely water paying special attention to the drop offs and seams. Matt dropped a big fish a couple of pools up , he had too much slack in his line,when the fish ate his nymph and his indicator shot down he had to much line to pick up before he could get a good hook set in the trouts jaw. After some ribbing and banter from Pudge we moved on and came to a big pool with a shallow tail out , there was a good fish swinging in the current , a quick fly change to a dry- dropper set up was made so as to not spook the fish with a bulky indicator and double nymph rig. Manics guide chute has become my number one dry-dropper fly as it will suspend a small or well weighted nymph under neath and is very visible as and indicator in faster water. Matt got into position and cast ahead of the fish by a meter or so , the fish moved across slightly and took his small suspended nymph ...game on ! After a 5 min tug of war we had a beautiful 6.5lb brown trout in the net.
